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ros

Joined: 19 Jul 2005
Posts: 2469
Location: Beds

Posted: Thu Sep 13, 12 1:07 pm Post subject: chickens and runner beans

A quick question:

we have 4 chickens at school for which I am partly resposible. We also have a veg garden ( ditto)

The children want to feed the old and stringy runner beans to the chickens - is it safe for them to eat the bean/seads ? I did wonder if they could be poisonous as with uncooked kidney beans and humans???

thank you

ps have not been around a lot recently - must catch up with what's been going on!

Finsky

Joined: 10 Sep 2011
Posts: 847
Location: Notts.

Posted: Thu Sep 13, 12 3:33 pm Post subject:
I have no idea...but my 'gut feeling' says , no. If you think of all wildbird mixes..there is split peas and lentils included..but never beans. Fresh bean seeds don't need lot of cooking..so for occasional treat, if they would be boiled 5 mins..just to soften them slightly, I'm sure it don't hurt.

Nell Merionwen

Joined: 02 Jun 2008
Posts: 16300
Location: Beautiful Derbyshire

Posted: Thu Sep 13, 12 6:15 pm Post subject: Re: chickens and runner beans

ros wrote:

ps have not been around a lot recently - must catch up with what's been going on!

https://forum.downsizer.net/about73450.html

gythagirl

Joined: 18 Feb 2010
Posts: 1467
Location: Somerset

Posted: Fri Sep 14, 12 7:46 am Post subject:
My chooks won't touch runner beans, esp tough old ones - unless they're cooked as leftovers! Even the pigs aren't overly impressed, although they eat them if they're on the vines when I pull them down.

ros

Joined: 19 Jul 2005
Posts: 2469
Location: Beds

Posted: Sat Sep 15, 12 8:54 am Post subject:
Thanks for the answers - I'll try cooking some up and see how they go. 'tis a minefield and a steep learning curve having chickens in school - but so worth it, especially with some of the more "challenging" children

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